Homebrew Empty Species Details

You died. But you woke up. You wanted to stay dead. You didn't. You are alive, and now... now it is all meaningless. Now you don't want life, but something is keeping you here. You don't know what or why or how. Is this real? Is this simply the God's punishing you in the Lower plains? Is it real? Is it some dream through death? Is. It. REAL. You don't know and it is slowly driving you insane. You are, sadly, reborn and Empty.

Wander this mortal plane once more. Mayhaps you seek revenge, or maybe you're taking advantage of a second chance. Whatever the case you remember dying. You are hollow inside, yet somehow you still live. A part of your face is gone, your skull exposed. Your skull is your only bone, but you still move. The fatal wound that struck you down is not healed, blood still pours out, you still feel the pain, but why are you not dead? Was it a punishment, magic, or just cruel fate?

You appear normal, if normal was partially decayed, bloodied corpse that isn't quite dead and is completely hollow on the inside, save their skulls, which are cleary visible as one half of the skin and muscle tissue and everything except bone and teeth are gone for no apparent reason. Some speculate they live because in life they caused great harm or committed terrible misdeads that upset almost every deity. Others say it was a reviving spell gone wrong. But most believe that it is because they died at the wrong time, and fate's design could not change. In actuality there is no definitive answer as to the cause of their existence. You will be an outcast, a monster that parents use on their children to keep them in bed, and as far as anyone's concerned, unnatural.

Characters of this amazing homebrew race can originate from any species, but the result is still the same. Unless you're a plasmoid Empty. Is that how you spell it? Anyways, the background you choose will likely be from before you kicked the bucket. So will all you're stats, knowledge, and basically everything. How you died and were reborn are up to you and your DM.

Empty Traits

You died, and now you are this... thing. And being like this has benefits... and downsides.

Age

You don't age or decay. Whatever age you were before you died will always be your age.

Rebirth

The magics that revived you took it one step further, giving you +3 to your max health, and +1d6 to your constitution modifier.

Decayed body

Because half of your face is just gone, you gain +4 to intimidation checks.

Undead being

You gain vulnerability to fire damage, but you gain resistance to necrotic damage and immunity to cold damage.

Commune with the Dead

You know the spell Speak with Dead.

Blending

You simply lay down and adopt a "dead" pose to fool a creature, who must make a Wisdom saving throw, dc14

Hollow Inside

You don't need to eat, breathe, or maintain blood flow to the brain (not that you have one) due to the fact that you are completely hollow.

Time Ispires Wisdom

Gain 6 to wisdom saving throws.

Hesitation

When you reach level 10, performing every action that would obviously benefit another person, for example giving them a healing potion or bandaging their wounds, you must roll a D20, and if it rolls under a 16, you do not perform the action.